Arkansauce is a new journal created by the Special Collections Department of the University of Arkansas Libraries to explore food history, customs, and traditions in the Natural State. Rex Nelson is the guest editor of the inaugural issue. Read it…

LIGHT YOUR FIRE: Sparks from the Culinary Edge   June 1-4, 2011Austin, TX     Constant innovation. That’s the credo of every culinarian. Whether inventing new recipes, exploring new technologies, probing new views of food history or acting on the…

Culinary Curiosity Exhibition at Kendall College. An Online virtual museum features retrospective of nearly 300 culinary, baking and confectionary cooking tools. More than 130 items from the exhibition are featured on the Web site along with descriptions and videos about…

Culinary Historians of New York   “Is There a Midwestern Cuisine? Culinary Identities of the American Heartland: Fish Boils, Fish Fries, the Cudighi and Runza, Ohio Mango, the Coney and Big Baby”  Bruce Kraig, PhD. Date: Wednesday, October 14, 2009 Time: 6:30pm…

Music and Food: Exploring Interdependent Cultural Expressions     2009 Delta Divertissement October 29–30, 2009 (Sold Out)2009 Southern Foodways Symposium October 30–November 1, 2009 (Tickets Still Available)   For more information and registration, click here. (http://www.southernfoodways.com/events/symposium/index.html)  The twelfth Southern Foodways…

Introducing Stories Matter: Open Source Database Building Software   After nearly a year of interdisciplinary collaboration among affiliates of the Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling at Concordia University in Montreal, the first phase of Stories Matter is complete.…

Join the American Institute of Wine & Food and the Chicago Botanic Garden for a unique symposium exploring the history, factors and forces impacting today’s agricultural choices from an engaging line-up of national experts in nutrition, the environment, legislation, economics…